In China, when preparing a manuscript in Chinese, the citation for literature in English and Chinese is something like (Smith et al., 2020; 张三等, 2020), where "等" is "et al." Now the standard CSL seems not to support this kind of citation.
I have a style file, which supports that kind of citation, the related part is as follows: <layout locale="en" prefix="（" suffix="）" delimiter=", "> ... </layout> <layout prefix="（" suffix="）" delimiter=", "> ... </layout>
However, CSL validator indicated the code was not valid for CSL 1.0.2.
I can't see the code, but anything you'd do to make this work would use csl-m features and therefore indeed not be valid CSL 1.0.2 -- doesn't mean it doesn't work, but we wouldn't accept it to the repo
I would be very much interested in a Zotero plugin for multilingual support, since I am relying heavily on Juris-m for multilingual citations so far (and not at all for legal citations). Unfortunately, I cannot contribute with coding, but will help with testing, feedback ...
Multilingual support is important on many counts and I would love to see it in Zotero. When I have discussed this on the forums a while back, the advice was Juris-m. My scepticism at the time was its longevity given that it largely relies on one developer and this seems to be proving right (I have never used Juris-m, living with limitations instead, so am judging by comments in this thread only). My concern is that everything outside of the core Zotero, with just one or a couple of champions, will have the same or worse precarity, plugin or not. A reference library should last a career, or multiple careers, and most plugins come and go at too high a frequency, which is to be expected. An addon that takes standard data and does something with it is OK, but custom-structured data will be worse than useless when a plugin dies.
@sdflewrit783 yes, this makes a lot of sense. If we can do add-on that works with standard data, that would be most ideal. The problem is figuring out who can devote time and energy and resources to the task.
Hello, I'm just bookmarking this thread to say that I've almost completed a MVP plugin to support multi-lingual outputs, and will post it here too over this weekend for people to test and request features from. More soon.
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I have a style file, which supports that kind of citation, the related part is as follows:
<layout locale="en" prefix="（" suffix="）" delimiter=", ">
...
</layout>
<layout prefix="（" suffix="）" delimiter=", ">
...
</layout>
However, CSL validator indicated the code was not valid for CSL 1.0.2.
Any hints?